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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 9969 |
| QUOTATION: | The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | James Branch Cabell (1879–1958), U.S. novelist, essayist. The Silver Stallion, bk. 4, ch. 26 (1926). See Bradley and Voltaire on optimism. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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